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Sunday, February 08, 2015

NewsWrap for the week ending January 31, 2015

SUMMARY

For All The Saints - The Mormon Church supports anti-bias protections for LGBT people in the U.S., as long as there’s an exemption for “sincerely held religious belief” …

The Boys Still in Boise - Idaho lawmakers for the ninth year reject a proposal to ban discrimination in the state based on sexual orientation and gender identity …

Party to Persecution - twelve young men in northern Nigeria are busted by Islamic state police for “planning a gay wedding” …

Which Mob Do You Prefer? - nine young gay men in Uganda are attacked by a mob, arrested by police and tortured behind bars …

Cue Cops - an Egyptian appeals court closes the cases against 26 men who were charged with “debauchery” in December in an infamously-televised Cairo bathhouse raid …

On Your Honor - zsthe California Supreme Court bans all judges in the state from membership in any nonprofit youth organization that discriminates against LGBT people -- most notably the Boy Scouts of America …

A Road to Enigma - a Sicilian city names a road for gay British World War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing, whose achievements are celebrated in the Oscar-nominated “The Imitation Game”, and also memorialized in several locales in the U.K. - including a statue in a park bordering the “gay village” in Manchester ….